In mid-2010, a strike wave rolled through China's factories, the most widespread and militant struggle of China's internal migrant workers so far. The struggle shook the Chinese regime and provoked a world-wide debate: Is this the beginning of the end of the low-wage-model that stands behind China's rise to the "factory of the world" and provides the rest of the world with cheap consumer products? The strikes continued in 2011, and together with riots and peasant uprisings they are indicators for the increasing pressure for social change in China.
This talk/discussion (including a ten-minute film) will focus on the strikes, the formation of a new working class movement in China, and the implications for social struggles around the world.

Presentation by Ralf Ruckus, labour researcher/activist with a focus on the conditions and struggles of migrant workers in China (www.gongchao.org)

If you'd like to find out more about the Jura space or to get involved in this amazing volunteer collective, come along!

Italian band Raein playing at Jura, stay tuned for more details.

Last Jura Books Collective meeting of the year!

This is the very last Juracoustic for the year and we're going out with a bang!

This month's show will double up as a celebration for the online release of Stono Caves' brand spankin' new EP, The River. Alongside that, it will feature:

-Maya's Void (alterna-pop smoothness)

Snacks and drinks by donation as usual!
Come and support your local friendly muso friends and say goodbye to a fruitful year in hopes for an even bigger and better one next year!

Love and rage!

https://www.facebook.com/events/274245552612757/

After Noam delivers the 2011 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, join us for a debrief and discussion. The Chomsky Forum organisers have been lucky enough to be invited to do a short interview with Noam when he is in Sydney. Come along to this debrief to learn what Noam's answers were and discuss how this applies to acitivist causes within Australia.

For free events and more info check out http://www.chomskyforum.net

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Who is Noam Chomsky?

Chomsky is a political dissident and a truly dangerous thinker. He is the world's most-quoted living author. His ideas reveal the possibilities for radical, democratic change - to increase the scope of human freedom. He writes: 'This world is full of suffering, distress, violence and catastrophes. People must decide: does that concern you or not? I say: look around, analyze the problems, ask yourself what you can do and set out!'

Chomsky has spent a lifetime seeking out and challenging illegitimate structures of authority. His razor-sharp critiques of mass media, government and capitalism have led at times to him being vilified, jailed and denied entry to Israel. 'There is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.' He has also been a tireless opponent of war: 'Either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world.'

Chomsky is also an anarchist: 'Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time. Then anarchists work at unmasking and mastering the structures, whether they involve patriarchal families, a Mafia international system or the private tyrannies of the economy, the corporation. As soon as a person identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists.'

But despite all this, Chomsky is just one individual; he can’t change the world alone. Freedom is won by people acting together, not one celebrity activist.

Join us in the fight to make anarchism a reality!

After a bit of a break, Juracoustic is back again to welcome the beautiful warm weather! This month we will be enjoying the diverse sounds of

-Paul Mcadam (ukulele-slingin' acoustica)
-Cameron Birt (North Shore - but not wanky - folk punk)

+ open mic

It'll be Halloween too so get awesome and dress up! We'll have spooky jugs of iced tea and snacks by donation.

Love and rage!

Interested in getting involved in building the Jura space? Come along to the next meeting of our volunteer, participatory collective.

Brian Martin, Professor of Social Sciences, will introduce Chomsky's political thought and highlight its continued relevance to social movements in Australia. Wollongong activist Lindsay Hawkins will speak on the Liberal government's attacks on the public sector and rank and file organising. Meet on the McKinnon Lawn.

Organised by the Sydney Chomsky Forum - http://www.chomskyforum.ne​t/

Facebook event - https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122116297893189#!/event.php?eid=155557514537396

Strategies of Struggle from below is an experimental documentary exploring diverse forms of social organisation in different regions in the beautiful, unique but complex country of Colombia.

Street art, technology, education, direct action and international solidarity are some of the tools used by artists, students, indigenous groups, unions and other social grassroots organisations to challenge the dominant social relations of neoliberal policy- lowering of working conditions, generalised repression, impunity, individualism and competition.

This screening of this new documentary by local activists will also be a fundraiser for one of the community struggles in the film. Don't miss out on seeing this inspiring and informative documentary!

https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=240638282655708